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Leon Trotsky

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Man Place Victory Woman Work
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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Country Detail History Hope Ideas Impossible Myself Revolution Willing
Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Candidate Election People Right
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Country Fulfill Impossible Possible Task
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Guide History Leadership Position Time

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